(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) Kuwait's Assistant Foreign Minister for Legal Affairs Ghanim Al-Ghanim stressed Sunday the importance of coordinating stands among Arab states on negotiations of UN Treaty on climate change, and its impacts on different aspects, particularly economy.
Ambassador Al-Ghanim made his remarks to KUNA on the sidelines of meetings of Arab negotiation group for the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), which kicked off earlier in the Egyptian capital.
The two-day meetings are part of preparations for the international summit on climate change, slated for next December in Paris, France, Al-Ghanim, who heads the Kuwaiti delegation at the meetings, noted.
A new legal instrument is expected to be issued during the international summit, he said, adding that the new instrument would include a number of commitments on countries such as reducing their carbon dioxide emissions, which are the main cause for global warming.
The Kuwaiti delegation at the meetings include representatives for the oil ministry and Environment Public Authority.
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